Letters: Guns, violence & Giron recall

Published: July 13, 2013;Last modified: July 13, 2013 11:02PM

Law won’t work

We have been hearing a lot of justification for Colorado’s recently passed, ill-conceived, and poorly written gun control measures. The common progressive explanation is, “if it only saves one or two children.” The answer to that is, “It won’t.”

If these people truly wanted to protect children (which they really do not want to accomplish but “it’s for the children” is the cliche used in the left’s arguments for power and control), there are good common-sense ways to do this.

We teach our children about dangerous things. Sexual activity, driving, tobacco and drugs can be dangerous just as guns can be dangerous. In public schools, we offer proper education about all of the above subjects except for gun safety.

What if we educated children about how to properly handle firearms, how to respect the power of a gun, and how to alert adults if any suspicious firearm or person mishandling a firearm is seen?

Classes could be taught by certified National Rifle Association instructors. Parents could either allow their children to attend these classes or opt out similar to sex education classes. Classes could be taught at two levels, one with classroom education only, and more advanced instruction at a shooting range. In the latter case, a parent or guardian should not only give permission but should be required to attend with their child to observe firsthand what is taught.

If you sincerely want to save children’s lives, then give them the education they need to understand the danger and responsibility that a firearm requires. This would save more than one or two children’s lives.

Keith Lorensen

Pueblo

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Rights threatened

I am irritated with the campaign to stop the recall effort of Angela Giron.

I am a wife, mother and grandmother and I have had enough with my rights being violated. I am not alone. Apparently, over 12,000 people agreed that our Second Amendment rights are being threatened.

Several days ago, I received a call at my office (which I did not appreciate) from the stop the recall committee questioning my intelligence when they asked if I realized what I was signing when I signed the petition to recall Giron. Yes, I know exactly what I signed and will do it again.

Today, we received in our home mail a publication entitled nobody signed up for this paid for by the Pueblo United for Angela. Yes, I did sign up to recall Giron because it is my right to do so.

The publication stresses the amount of money it is going to cost us our tax dollars for this recall election.

Well — Angela Giron, there is a very good way to solve this: resign now and save the money.

Iva Moore

Pueblo West

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Public safety

Both sides in the recall vote against a local senator are concerned about the same thing — public safety.

Murder of innocents by citizens has caused each side to worry about safety at home and in public. This creates common ground for us all to stand on. Gun control is what we find in Mexico or England. We are nowhere near such a situation.

Our Bill of Rights in the beginning was a liberal cause and the 13 states would not ratify our Constitution until our rights were assured. Hitler and other tyrants have given us pause about gun control, yet the issue of public safety plagues the two sides in this recall effort that some feel are needed to clarify our rights.

Perhaps both sides need to settle down and sit down and discuss how we get to the solution of public safety issues.

The NRA needs to get off its confusing high horse. Hysteria on both sides just upsets us who are in the middle, and we are many.